Modern Slavery Statement

This statement is made by Story Seeds Somerset CIC, the Community Interest Company that runs Daily Adventure. We are a small social enterprise registered in England and Wales under company number 15451729.

Section 54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 only legally requires a statement from organisations with an annual turnover above £36 million, so we are not required to publish one. We are doing it anyway, because the principles behind the Act matter and we want to be open about how we run things.

Daily Adventure is a digital service for families. We do not manufacture physical goods, we do not ship anything, and we do not operate warehouses, factories, or agricultural sites. Our work happens almost entirely inside software.

We are a small team. Everyone who works on Daily Adventure either holds a directorship in the CIC or engages with us as a freelance contractor based in the UK or EU. Everyone is paid, has the right to work, and is free to leave at any time. We do not use recruitment agencies for low paid labour, and we do not employ anyone under 18.

Because we are a digital product, our supply chain is mostly software and cloud infrastructure rather than physical goods. Our material suppliers are:

• Vercel for web hosting and background jobs.
• MongoDB Atlas for database hosting.
• Stripe for payment processing.
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and ElevenLabs for AI text and audio generation.
• Sentry for error monitoring.
• Crisp for live chat support.
• QStash (Upstash) for job queuing.
• Sanity for blog content management.
• Yoto as the integration partner our service plugs into.

These are all established technology providers based in the UK, EU, or United States. Each publishes its own public policies on employment standards and supplier conduct, and we rely on those policies when selecting providers. We would rather work with a slightly more expensive supplier whose standards we can read than the cheapest option.

• We read the policies of new suppliers before we sign up. If a supplier does not publish anything about employment standards, that is a reason to look somewhere else.
• We do not engage freelancers or contractors through labour brokers or gig platforms that obscure who is actually doing the work.
• We pay contractors at fair professional rates. We do not chase the lowest possible price for work.
• If something came to our attention that suggested a supplier or contractor was involved in modern slavery or human trafficking, we would stop using them and report what we know to the appropriate authority.

If you are aware of anything connected to Daily Adventure or Story Seeds Somerset CIC that you think could be linked to modern slavery, forced labour, or human trafficking, please email us at privacy@storyseeds.org.uk. In the UK you can also contact the Modern Slavery and Exploitation Helpline on 08000 121 700, or the police on 101 (999 in an emergency).

We review this statement at least once a year, and whenever our supplier list changes materially. If anything in here needs updating we will update it and bump the date at the top of the page.